Vapers Digest 18th November
Monday’s News at a glance:
GSTHR 2024 Situation Report – 1/3rd Of UK Vapers Will Defy Flavour Restrictions: We Vape Poll – APPG Loves the Legislation – EU Strategy Is Costing Lives – Forum Explores New Landscape – What Older Vapers Think of Youth-Vaping Panic – Smoking out, vaping in: – Thinking ’bout THR News & Views – Decoding the Hearing of Olivér Várhelyi – Why Josh Brolin’s Excessive Nicotine Pouch Use is Something to Celebrate – Experts tout new tobacco alternatives
Two from Michelle Jones, ECigClick
GSTHR 2024 Situation Report –
Tobacco Harm Reduction Around The World
Today sees the launch of The Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction 2024: A Situation Report (GSTHR 2024). The publication is the fourth in a landmark series from UK-based public health agency Knowledge∙Action∙Change (K∙A∙C), which, since 2018, has demonstrated how tobacco harm reduction (THR) using safer nicotine products (SNP) can mitigate the devastating impact of smoking-related diseases that continue to cause eight million deaths every year.
The extent to which SNP are replacing and substituting for combustible and risky oral tobacco products is the report’s central theme…
1/3rd Of UK Vapers Will Defy Restrictions
OVER A THIRD of UK of vapers will defy any new flavour restrictions brought in under the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, a poll by campaign group We Vape has found.
Commissioned after the bill’s first reading in parliament, the poll showed 35% of a 601-strong sample group of vapers across the UK would continue to buy flavoured vapes online, abroad or elsewhere if flavours were limited to only ‘tobacco’, ‘menthol’, and ‘fruit’.
Three from Dave Cross, Planet of the Vapes:
APPG Loves the Legislation
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health (APPG) has expressed its strong support for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill as it returns to Parliament. The cross-party group of Parliamentarians who campaign on tobacco control, welcomed the return of the Bill to the House and believe the Bill will curb youth vaping and make the UK the first country to introduce a “Smokefree Generation”.
Anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health coordinates the activities of the APPG. It says members of the group have been calling for the reintroduction of the Bill since it was included in the King’s Speech in July…
EU Strategy Is Costing Lives
The European Union’s outdated tobacco strategy is failing and costing lives, leading to the EU missing its ‘smoke free’ by miles, according to a landmark report by global public health experts. The new data has prompted calls for innovative harm reduction solutions as smoking rates persist, says Smoke Free Sweden.
New analysis of data from the Europe Union’s leading research body reveals how the EU’s outdated tobacco control strategy is losing the war against smoking.
Forum Explores New Landscape
The UK Vaping Industry Association’s annual Industry Forum returned for another year and took place at the London Marriott Hotel Regents Park on Friday, November 15. The highly-anticipated event, which has become the largest and most influential B2B event of its kind for the UK sector, came at arguably the most critical and consequential time in the history of the industry.
The annual UKVIA Forum attracts C-suite executives from the global vaping sector, retail leaders, parliamentarians, regulators, environmental and public health professionals, academics, think tanks and investors to name just a few.
‘”Public Health” people are not stakeholders at all. Having an opinion about the proper private actions of others does not make you a stakeholder, it makes you a busybody’ – Dr. Carl V. Phillips https://t.co/f96zSZHPEz
— Phil (@phil_w888) November 18, 2024
What Older Vapers Think of Youth-Vaping
Kiran Sidhu
Globally, youth vaping and its supposed health impacts have dominated public discussion and driven policies, to the extent that other needs tend to be overlooked. Among the forgotten populations, many older adults have started vaping in recent years, having previously smoked ever since their youth.
It’s true that older people vape in lower numbers than younger adults. Detailed figures are often less readily available, given the disproportionate focus on youth. But in the United States, surveys and studies have suggested that somewhere around 1 percent of people in 50-plus age groups vape daily. In the United Kingdom, where public health authorities have generally been more pro-vaping, an estimated 5.8 percent of adults over 55 vape.
Smoking out, vaping in:
A new CDC report offers cause for optimism – Lindsey Stroud
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the 2023 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey results, an annual assessment of various health-related behaviors among U.S. adults. Tobacco control advocates have reason to celebrate: The adult smoking rate has reached record lows, and in some states, young adult smoking rates are nearly nonexistent.
According to the BRFSS, only 12.1% of adults across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., smoked in 2023, down from 14% in 2022. This drop represents a decrease from 36.4 million smokers in 2022 to 31.7 million in 2023, a reduction of approximately 4.7 million.
Thinking ’bout THR News & Views
Kim “Skip” Murray
Today’s thoughts will not be in their usual space at the top of this newsletter. Since my trip to DC and SC, I have been reminiscing about the vast amounts of kindness I witnessed, which made the one unkind thing I heard stab me in a way I have been unable to let go of.
That comment reminds me how unbalanced and contentious the conversation is about tobacco harm reduction, smoking, and nicotine. Once again, I sit here in tears, thinking about how many people will die today from smoking tobacco.
Decoding the Hearing of Olivér Várhelyi
Pouch Forum
Like everyone working with policy in Brussels, Pouchforum has followed the hearings of the designated commissioners closely. When dealing with a specific issue like nicotine pouches, one must stay attentive, as any mention of the product may come in a passing reference or as too often happens, as part of a broader category of products that share only minimal similarities—such as being labelled as “novel.” What is directly related to the specific topic and what are more general statements is most often open for debate since the designates want to give sufficiently clear answers to respond to the questions from the committee without being to detailed or pre-emptive.
Why Josh Brolin’s Excessive Pouch Use
Is Something to Celebrate –
News that Hollywood A-lister Josh Brolin is using nicotine pouches around the clock was met with a mix of fascination, indifference, and shock at the sheer scale of his operation. Naturally, there were a few “experts” ready on hand to remind us that we don’t have enough long-term data about the health effects of pouches, oblivious to the existence of data about snus use in Sweden.
I would never advocate that someone use pouches 24 hours a day. Or stuff them into their mouth when they sleep. But if that’s what the 56-year-old actor wants to do, that’s his business. However, I think there is a more important thing to consider.
Experts tout new tobacco alternatives
Jessica R. Towhey
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On this Day…2023
A look back at how things have moved on or otherwise…
The end of what? UK E-Cig Summit 2023
Clive Bates, The Counterfactual
The extended version of my presentation to the UK E-cigarette summit 16 November 2023
Vaping: a guide for …
Health and social care professionals
Andy McEwen, Hayden McRobbie, Louise Ross & Kirstie Soar
When the NCSCT published Electronic cigarettes: a briefing for stop smoking services in 2014, it was a world-first review of the literature on use, effectiveness, and safety of e-cigarettes. The second edition in 2016 provided an update, drawing on a comprehensive independent evidence review published by Public Health England,1 and giving guidance for stop smoking practitioners and services.
In the last few years there has been a significant increase in research on e-cigarettes and evidence reviews have been, and continue to be, regularly published. This briefing is specifically written to summarise information and address issues relevant to health and social care professionals and to stop smoking practitioners in particular.
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